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The UCLA Programs in Medical Classics began in 1983. The lecture series is designed to bring together important medical writings and texts, clinical practice, basic research and humanistic scholarship. The programs explore in detail the scientific and clinical meaning of the text or topic, and its significance in the light of present-day medical practice. The topics embody the history of medicine, as well as the relation of medicine to broader cultural settings. |
| Medical Classics 1988-89 |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Court Physicians and the French Revolution |
| Presenter: | Colin Jones, Ph.D.
University of Exeter, England |
| Introduced by: | Caroline C. Hannaway, Ph.D. Editor, Bulletin of the History of Medicine |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | French Revolution and English Madness: The Saga of James Tilly Matthews and John Haslam (1764-1844) |
| Presenter: | Roy Porter
Senior Lecturer, The Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London, and Clark Professor, UCLA (1988-1989) |
| Introduced by: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D. Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Health Reform in Nelson’s Navy |
| Presenter: | Robert J.T. Joy, M.D.
Professor of the History of Medicine, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD. |
| Introduced by: | Norman J.W. Thrower, Ph.D. Professor of Geography, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Jean Marc Gaspard Itard (1775-1838): Physician and Mentor of the Wild Boy of Aveyron |
| Presenter: | Thierry Gineste, M.D.
Hôpital St.Antoine, Paris. |
| Introduced by: | Peter E. Tanguay, M.D. Professor of Child Psychiatry, UCLA. |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Public Health in Paris: The Views of Johann Peter and Joseph Frank |
| Presenter: | Ramunas Kondratas, Ph.D.
The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. |
| Introduced by: | Robert G. Frank, Jr., Ph.D. Associate Professor of Medical History and History, UCLA. |
| Description: | Medicine in the Era of the French Revolution |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | Revolution in the Hospital: Medicine, Midwifery, Psychiatry |
| Presenter: | Dora B. Weiner, Ph.D.
Professor of the Medical Humanities, UCLA |
| Introduced by: | Robert M. Maniquis, Ph.D. Associate Professor of English, UCLA; Director: UCLA Bicentennial Program |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | The Science of Man and the French Revolution: The Ideologue P.J.G. Cabanis (1757-1808) |
| Presenter: | Ludmilla Jordanova, Ph.D.
University of Essex, England |
| Introduced by: | Lawrence Kruger, M.D. Professor of Anatomy, UCLA. Professor of Anatomy, UCLA |
| Date: | n.d. |
| Program: | The Teaching of Surgery in Paris: The Career of Pierre Joseph Desault (1783-1795) |
| Presenter: | Toby Gelfand, Ph.D.
Jason A. Hannah Professor of the History of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Canada |
| Introduced by: | Charles A. Carton, M.D. Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery), and Attending, Neurosurgery, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. |